On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:55 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Seems to me like there's no point in asking the ftpmasters to come > up with > > the source package section name because the package author didn't > notice > > and set one before the first upload. Although I do agree that if > we're > > going to make this a mandatory requirement for packages, Policy > needs to > > be modified accordingly. > > Don't the ftpmasters make their own independent judgement on the > section > field anyway? I don't see how it helps to require the Section field > be > changed to /some/ other value when there's no guarantee that the new > value > is valid or correct. It's just one more thing to cause a round-trip > for the > maintainer. > > (N.B.: this check would fail even in the case of a package with a > pre-existing section override in the archive. What's the sense of > that? > Let the maintainer get the nag mail after the fact telling them to > reconcile > the section, instead.)
What's the point of having the maintainer specify it in the first place? -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org